Three weeks ago, the National Assembly adopted an envelope of 230 million euros for households which use, for their heating, logs or pellets, these cylindrical sticks whose prices are exploding.
Gabriel Attal, Minister Delegate for Public Accounts, clarified the outlines: the aid, which will range from 50 to 200 euros, will benefit French people who earn up to 2260 euros per month for a single person and up to 4750 euros for a couple with two children.
That is 2.6 million households in total.
“
The counter will open on December 22.
All you have to do is connect to the Chequeenergie.fr.gouv.fr site and enter your teleregistrant number and your invoice
, ”explains the minister in
Le Parisien .
.
Depending on the species and the degree of humidity of the wood, the cost of a log per kilowatt hour (kWh) is around 0.038 euro.
Far from gas prices, around 0.0880 euro per kWh, and very far from the regulated price of electricity sold by EDF at 0.174 euro per kWh.
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The Minister, wishing to address "
working France, which gets up every morning
", affirmed "
to assume [his] attachment to concentrating the effort on the middle classes
".
"
French people who work, or who want to work, must be our priority
," adds Gabriel Attal.
A reference to the famous phrase uttered by former President Nicolas Sarkozy: “
France that gets up early
”.
A plan against tax and social fraud
The former government spokesperson also announced that he will present " at the
beginning of 2023
" a plan on tax and social fraud.
“
As of next year, we will be able to automatically withdraw the VAT number of a fraudulent company.
And we are making progress on the site of electronic invoicing which will be implemented from July 2024 for large companies and in the following years for the others
”, explains Gabriel Attal, who recalls that VAT fraud is estimated at around 20 billion euros. euros per year, according to INSEE.
Regarding social fraud, allowances can no longer be paid into foreign bank accounts, from July 1, 2023. "
These payments represent 150 million euros over 5 years
",